The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Hectic movements on Syria-Lebanon border | Tension grows between Hezbollah and NDF

Reliable SOHR sources have reported that the Lebanese Hezbollah has established several military posts, since early April, near crossing used for smuggling on the outskirts of Sarghaya on the Syria-Lebanon border.

 

Meanwhile, a state of tension is growing between the regime-backed National Defence Forces (NDF) and Hezbollah because the new posts has been established near the routes used by NDF to smuggle drugs, goods and people between Syria and Lebanon.

 

According to SOHR sources, areas on the Syria-Lebanon border have recently experienced hectic movements in the wake of the escalating disagreements between the Lebanese Hezbollah on one hand and regime forces and their proxy militias on the other over revenue-sharing of smuggling operations.

 

Moreover, Hezbollah has boosted its military posts and headquarters in the area expanding from Al-Zabadani city to western Qalamon, where it has erected soil barriers in front of the posts, dug tunnels and trenches around them and installed Syrian flags on its posts, fearing possible Israeli attacks.

 

Yesterday, Observatory sources reported that Iran remarkably expanded its influence and escalated its activity in Syria, since the start of the Russian war in Ukraine, by setting up training camp centres and transferring weapons to “Iranian colony” west of Euphrates and Palmyra in the countryside of Homs.

 

According to reliable sources, Iranian-backed militias expanded their influence in Hama countryside by transforming “47th Brigade” in Jabal Maareen in the southern Hama countryside into a military base of Al-Quds corps, the main base of Iranian-militias command in Hama province.

 

According to Syrian Observatory sources, the Iranian base at Jabal Maareen now houses a training centre for Iranian forces, and military reinforcements of advanced weaponry and members recently arrived.

 

It is worth noting that the 47th Brigade is a tank brigade affiliated with the 11th Division of the Syrian Army, but it is under absolute Iranian control.